Exiled Tibetan leaders and officials in the United States have condemned China's "cruel" policies in Tibet, accusing Beijing of separating families in the Himalayan region, banning their language, and engaging in non-consensual DNA collection. Addressing the US Congress for the first time, Penpa Tsering, the head of the India-based organisation known as Tibet's government in exile, said on Tuesday that Tibet was dying a "slow death" under Chinese rule. "We often get asked why we don't hear about Tibet any more," said Tsering, known as the Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). He blamed that silence on China's "Orwellian gridlock system, use of all means of artificial intelligence to surveil people, control the flow of information and lockdown of Tibet to the outside world". "Tibetan language, religion and culture are the bedrock of Tibetan identity … These are facing the unprecedented threat of eradication," he told the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing via video link.

With the dawn of the computer age the typewriter has disappeared into obscurity in most parts of the world, but in Myanmar many people still rely on typewriters to make a living. In a country where electricity is still unstable and computers remain prohibitively expensive for many, typewriters are seen less as a product of a bygone era and more as a necessity. However, as change creeps into the country their numbers are dwindling and the few who have stuck with them are struggling to survive.